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Mass Effect 3 is probably one of my favourite games at the moment, but one thing always troubled me.

You almost never see anyone in the game eat or drink anything.

Showering is addressed in Mass Effect 3 with Samantha Traynor's admission, we see Commander Shepard losing sleep over everything that's happening (even she admits to Liara, "I'll sleep when I'm dead"), but as far as I can remember we never see any of the crew stop for something to eat or drink.

I imagine that the crew considers the SR2's coffee maker is its most necessary piece of hardware. All of them probably subsist off of caffeinated drinks.

Liara sees her home planet in ashes. The Asari, often considered ageless and supreme in the eyes of the galaxy, are pushed to the brink of extinction. In Mass Effect 3, we see the crew coping with their grief in different ways, but many of them are subtle.

Perhaps Liara resorts to eating away her sorrows.

Garrus, always talkin' 'bout those calibrations.

You rarely see Shepard in a moment of weakness throughout the series. Pushed to her limits, being bombarded on all fronts from a galaxy in desperate need. It's a lot to handle. Maybe too much to handle at times.

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